Beginner Carousel and Games question..

[Maddocks]

Hi All,
I have build a cabinet. I have a couple of questions somebody may be able to help me out with?

1. When I exit a game, is it possible to go back to the main carousel instead of the current game list.
2. Is it possible to have the carousel only to list the games. ie, I have 2 SNES games and 7 Genesis games. It would be nice just to be able to toggle left & right to select only the small selection of games rather than the consoles.

I hope this makes sense and sorry if these questions have already been asked

Regards
maddocks

[Clyde]

Greetings and welcome to the forum. :)

Frankly, I don't quite understand your endeavour. You can simply switch between game lists with right and left without using the main carousel at all. And why do you want to return to the carousel if you were happy to move from game list to game list directly?

I guess I may just misunderstand you … :)

[mitu]

@maddocks You can configure ES to start directly in one of the 2 systems, so when ES starts you'll be presented with the list of games in that system. Then you can switch to the neighbouring systems with left/right (as @Clyde said).

[mattrixk]

Following on from what @mitu said, if you put all 9 games into a single custom collection, you could then configure ES to start in that custom collection.

NB: I have no idea how to do either of those things, it's just an idea for you to look in to.

[Clyde]

@mattrixk said in Beginner Carousel and Games question..:

put all 9 games into a single custom collection

That's the easy part: Either create the collection manually as it is described in the Docs or create an automatic collection with all games in it via Main Menu > Game Collection Settings > Automatic Game Collections > All Games.

you could then configure ES to start in that custom collection.

I don't know if that's possible. In Main Menu > UI Settings > Start On System, I can only choose the Collections category itself, not a particular collection in it. But I may miss something.

[mitu]

@clyde said in Beginner Carousel and Games question..:

But I may miss something.

When you have the 'Sort Custom Collections and Systems' set, it's possible to choose to start on a custom collection. Here's some screenshots - I have a Megaman custom collection set (obviously) and I can choose to start with it.

[Clyde]

@mitu Thanks, I didn't know that (and frankly, it's not intuitive to me that a sorting option does enable certain startup entries).

Alas, it doesn't work on my Pi 3b with Retropie 4.4. I did like you said, but my four custom collections don't show up in Start On System. Their names are varied, from single short words to multiple words with whitespaces and special characters (namely '), so it shouldn't be a naming issue.

I'm updating all packages at the moment to see if that changes anything. But my last update wasn't long ago, not more than 1-2 months.

That said, I noticed one thing that may help @Maddocks. The automatic collection "All Games" shows up in the main carousel (didn't know that either) and thus, can be chosen in Start On System regardless of the sorting option.

edit: Just some typos.

[mitu]

@clyde said in Beginner Carousel and Games question..:

I'm updating all packages at the moment to see if that changes anything. But my last update wasn't long ago, not more than 1-2 months.

Eh, it might be because I'm running the -dev branch of ES, I forgot about that.

[Clyde]

@mitu :)

[Clyde]

@mitu By the way, how do you display your VRAM on screen? Is it a feature of ES (dev) or what other tool do you use? It may be handy sometimes, e.g. in case of problems with graphics-heavy themes like recently.

[mitu]

@clyde said in Beginner Carousel and Games question..:

By the way, how do you display your VRAM on screen?

Toggle the Show FPS setting in ES.

[Clyde]

@mitu Thanks, I couldn't look for it at the time of my post because ES was updating from source. Apropos and FYI, even the source version doesn't have the feature to start in a collection, yet. But its existence in the dev version is a hopeful sign that it will come to the stable version eventually. :)

[mitu]

@clyde You can install the -dev version from the Experimental packages section, it compiles much quickly than the stable version. You can also switch back if you like.

[Clyde]

@mitu Thanks for the tip. I don't need the missing function to start into a custom collection myself, but maybe its helpful for @Maddocks.